Simple, pass-through pricing

You pay each provider’s list price per request, from $0.001 a search, with no per-request markup. Credits are prepaid. Failed requests are refunded automatically.

Credits

Buy $5 to $10,000 at a time. 5.5% fee, $0.80 minimum. No subscription, no expiry.

Bring your own key

Use your own provider key: free for the first 1M requests a month, then 5% of list price.

Failed calls cost nothing

If a provider errors, you are refunded and the next fallback is tried. You only pay for the answer you got.

Price per model

Loaded live from GET /v1/models. Each price includes 10 results; click a model for worked examples.

ModelPer 1,000 requestsIncluded resultsExtra resultLatency
exa/instant
Exa instant, lowest-latency neural search
$4.0010+$1.00 / 1k~300 ms
exa/fast
Exa fast
$7.0010+$1.00 / 1k~500 ms
exa/auto
Exa auto (default, best general quality)
$7.0010+$1.00 / 1k~1 s
exa/deep
Exa deep multi-query search
$12.0010+$1.00 / 1k~5 s
parallel/turbo
Parallel turbo, ~200ms
$1.0010+$1.00 / 1k~200 ms
parallel/fast
Parallel fast, <1s
$1.0010+$1.00 / 1k~800 ms
parallel/basic
Parallel basic
$5.0010+$1.00 / 1k~1 s
parallel/advanced
Parallel advanced, highest quality excerpts
$5.0010+$1.00 / 1k~3 s
keenable/pro
Keenable pro index
$4.0010none~700 ms
keenable/realtime
Keenable realtime index
$4.0010none~700 ms

What a month looks like

Cost of 10-result searches at typical agent volumes. Mix models with a fallback list and you pay for whichever answered each request.

ModelPer search10,000 / month100,000 / month1,000,000 / month
parallel/fast$0.001$10.00$100.00$1000.00
keenable/pro$0.004$40.00$400.00$4000.00
exa/auto$0.007$70.00$700.00$7000.00
exa/deep$0.012$120.00$1200.00$12000.00

Credit purchases

The fee is taken from what you pay, so you receive the amount minus the fee. Because of the $0.80 minimum, larger and less frequent top-ups are the cheapest way to buy.

You payFeeCredits added
$10.00$0.80 (minimum)$9.20
$50.00$2.75$47.25
$100.00$5.50$94.50
$1000.00$55.00$945.00

Spend limits per key

Give every agent, customer or environment its own key with a USD cap that resets daily, weekly or monthly. Enforced atomically with the debit, so a runaway loop stops at the limit. How it works.

Extra results

Asking for more than 10 results adds $0.001 per extra result on Exa and Parallel, billed on what the provider returns. Keenable’s price is flat. Details in the pricing docs.

Pricing FAQ

Is there a per-request markup over the providers' prices?

No. Each request costs the provider's current list price, loaded live from GET /v1/models. Mux's revenue is the 5.5% fee on credit purchases (minimum $0.80) and a 5% fee on bring-your-own-key requests after the first 1,000,000 in a month.

What does one search cost?

From $0.001 on the cheapest model to $0.012 on the most expensive, each with 10 results included. Extra results on Exa and Parallel add $0.001 each; Keenable's price is flat.

Do I pay when a provider fails?

No. Mux reserves the price before calling the provider and refunds it if the call fails. With a models list, only the model that answered is charged. The one exception is a provider timeout after 15 seconds, which keeps the model's base price because the provider has normally completed the search by then.

Is there a subscription or minimum commitment?

No. Credits are prepaid, $5 minimum and $10,000 maximum per purchase, never expire, and there is no monthly plan. Spend limits per API key are included.

How does bring your own key pricing work?

Add your own Exa, Parallel or Keenable key and requests to that provider are billed by the provider to you. Mux charges nothing for the first 1,000,000 such requests each calendar month, then 5% of the model's list price per request.

Can I get a refund on unused credits?

Yes, within the terms of the refund policy. Email support@getmux.io with the purchase date and amount.

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